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...Poverty offers him assistance in getting a job and occupational training; Project Head Start provides catch-up preschool education for his kids. Yet just as the framework of civil rights laws gets its finishing touch come angry Negro cries from California: "I haven't got a chance. Whitey is sitting on me. I can't wait any longer. Burn, baby, burn...
...were languishing in eighth place, taking their lumps from the Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators. Outfielder Roger Maris was still out with a pulled muscle in his thigh; Catcher Elston Howard, his right arm in a cast, was earning his keep as a TV announcer. Star Pitcher Whitey Ford (1964 record: 17-6) lost his fourth straight game and was banished briefly to the bullpen-prompting one wag to remark, "This year, the bullpen is mightier than the Ford." And all this while, Al Lopez's White Sox were winning nine out of eleven and leading the American...
...Jury of Peers. In the Los Angeles area, California's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board had no better luck in trying to control the situation by threatening to revoke licenses. Haled before the board, Whitey Locker, proprietor of Santa Monica's The Ball, protested that his club was patronized by some of the town's leading citizens: "How, then, can you say it runs counter to the community's sense of decency...
Last season the Yankees got great performances from Mickey Mantle (.302, 35 ), Elston Howard (.313), Whitey Word (17-6), and Mel Stottlemyre (9-3), and won the pennant on the next-to-last day of the season. While the White Sox, Orioles, and Indians have gained talent and experience during the past year, the Yanks have just gotten a little older and their joints a little creakier. Howard is . Mantle is 33, and apparently his ailing are still in extremely bad shape. Ford is 26, and needed an arm operation last winter. Stottlemyre was brilliant in last year's stretch...
...World Series time, the coldness and discomfort that New York Yankee Southpaw Whitey Ford had often felt in his left hand became a strength-robbing cramp afflicting his whole arm. But not until after the second game when he even had trouble shaving did Ford seek medical help from Dr. Martin L. Schulman of Long Island Jewish Hospital. The diagnosis: Pitcher Ford had an apparently complete blockage of the axillary artery, which carries blood through the shoulder toward the fingertips...